For the past 48 hours it has been working without fail. To accomplish
this required several shutdowns and rebooting both computers. I don't
know which 'repair' did the trick.
As for why we did this, my remembery is fuzzy, but it seems to me that
it was either to keep CL out, or because they
Fwiw, I didn't mind the refresher on the optics. I didn't really know,
for example, what the Schmidt Plate was all about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_corrector_plate
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:19 PM Michael Rasmussen wrote:
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>
> Skip the automation of how telescopes are designed and
Skip the automation of how telescopes are designed and get to the really
interesting bit on how it happens. Fascinating.
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
On 2021-10-16 13:22, Russell Senior wrote:
Here's a nice video on the novel
Here's a nice video on the novel telescopic lens on the normal (i.e.
not the Cirrus Flux Camera) camera on our satellite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxwhCmO90UQ
s/University of Portland/Portland State University/g
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:50 PM Russell Senior wrote:
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> As promised,
Looked up both of them and yes indeed the network is amateur
radio based. Very interesting. All is Open Source.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:56 AM Russell Senior
wrote:
> I'm not in charge of picking payloads. Amateur radio does feature in
> the communications strategy, as I understand it. There
I'm not in charge of picking payloads. Amateur radio does feature in
the communications strategy, as I understand it. There are ground
station networks called UniCLOGS and SATNOGS, but I'm not totally
clued in on the details.
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 9:14 PM Chuck Hast wrote:
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> Russell,
> Have
Russell,
Have you thought about amateur radio gear on board these devices?
I am betting you could get a lot of info from AMSAT, though their main
gig is satellites.
Here just south of me down in TX a group of amateurs launched a radio
equipped balloon, had a repeater, gps and a video feed from an
As promised, here are my slides from the talk (with links):
https://personaltelco.net/~russell/plug-talk-2021-10-07.pdf
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 8:57 AM Michael Dexter wrote:
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> Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
>
> Who: Russell Senior
> What: Russell's Excellent High
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
Who: Russell Senior
What: Russell's Excellent High Altitude Balloon Adventure
Where: https://meet.jit.si/pdxlinux
When: Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Russell volunteers with the Portland State
